Junket

Quick meaning: Junket is a noun meaning A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds.

Meaning

A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds.

More Meanings

1. A feast or banquet.
2. (film) Ellipsis of press junket.
3. (intransitive, dated) To attend a junket; to feast.
4. A pleasure trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
5. (gambling) A gaming room for which the capacity and limits change daily, often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.
6. (obsolete) A basket.
7. (obsolete) A delicacy.

Example Sentences

I love your meads, and I love your flowers, / And I love your junkets mainly […].

We're often in waiting / At junket or feting, / And sometimes attend an interment—

The Sunday ended in gloom, which even junket for supper in the blue Dresden bowl could hardly lighten at all.

Conversation is the natural Junket of the Mind ; and most Men have an Appetite to it, once in the day at least […].

Word Forms

• junkets
• junketing
• junketting
• junketed
• junketted

Synonyms for junket

Depending on context, synonyms include banquet, gallivant, jaunt, excursion, expedition, outing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include banquet, feast, jaunt, excursion, outing, expedition.

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